Blossoms on the Tama River Embankment — Hiroshige, 1856

Blossoms on the Tama River Embankment captures the beauty and activity of cherry-blossom season in Edo. A brilliant blue waterway curves through the landscape while visitors stroll beneath towering sakura trees. The enormous flowering tree in the foreground spreads its pale canopy across the sky, contrasting beautifully with deep blue water, muted green banks, and the tiny figures gathered below.

Created by Utagawa Hiroshige in 1856, this color woodblock belongs to the celebrated One Hundred Famous Views of Edo series. Hiroshige combines sweeping perspective, seasonal color, delicate blossoms, architecture, and everyday human activity to transform the Tama River embankment into a poetic vision of springtime Japan.

Artwork Details

• Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (Andō Hiroshige)
• Title: Blossoms on the Tama River Embankment
• Original title: Tamagawa-zutsumi no hana
• Series: Meisho Edo Hyakkei (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo)
• Date: 1856
• Period: Edo period
• Place of Origin: Japan
• Medium: Color woodcut; vertical ōban nishiki-e

Framed Print Details

• Fine art printing: Professional 12-color fine art printing technology produces vivid, accurate colors with strong tonal depth and significantly greater nuance than standard 4-color inkjet printing.
• Paper: Smooth premium matte paper with a clean, glare-free finish.
• Paper weight: 200 gsm (80 lb).
• Paper thickness: 0.26 mm (10.3 mils).
• Frame material: Durable pine wood.
• Frame dimensions: Approximately 20 mm (0.79 in) deep and 10–14 mm (0.4–0.6 in) wide.
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